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Ok. First I'd like to say that I like the balance in this thread. To have both negative and positive comments out in the open makes an informed little domainer out of me.
However I am as wary of the positive type as I am the negative. There is always more to the story. In this case I am among other things wondering why you hang around here if you are not invested in BB.
Basically you are saying (my interpretation) that the logo-setup and the startup-nicheing don't make a difference from just a sales lander.
That may hold true for some names. But if that was generally the case then BB, in business for 8 years in this niche, have been flushing a lot of cash and effort down the toilet for a long time.
They rely as much as their users on the functionality of the setup. That they like to sell names is safe to assume. If they had the same numbers with less effort they would'nt be down this road. It's business.
Making claims, especially ones that offer guidance is a responsibility. I don't know if you can back those up.
Maybe you could share the unlisted portfolio? Brandable sales from landers? (my limited experience is that brandable sales from landers are not happening). Anything?
Hard facts could potentially create a small exodus from BB, which I interpret you as wanting.
And I do share a lot of your views and feel that BB should take their sellers more seriously when it comes to stats.
But anyone making claims should back them up. If not, it's really speculation, and not much better than the aforementioned negligence by BB to adress warranted user concerns and supply stats.
The bottom line, I am here because of my love and passion for brandable domains. I eat, sleep and breathe these type of names. All of us have the ability to teach and learn and like I said before, if I can help I will. I think the majority here have taken what I've said as constructive criticism and no I don't want anyone leaving BB in a mass exodus. The truth is I could care less about BB but I am a firm believer that companies should be more transparent with their members. Especially ones where you have to pay to play.
I do believe logos help sell bad names but good names sell themselves with no logo needed. Will a good logo help sell a good name? Sure it will but if the name is good chances are it would have sold anyway especially if that person already sought at the name. The term brandable is subjective so names that I sell based on landers may be totally different in quality then your names. Seeing your list below I can easily say are brandables are far different in quality. There are many brandables that won't see the light of day unless they are on a marketplace like BB but if they are good I can promise you they get typed in by somebody. I track my sales directly to the source which is the buyer and after every single sale I ask them a few quick questions and one being, how did you find the name? and almost every single time they found it by typing it in. That is direct data right from the source that is priceless. I won't get into everything else I track.
Since you said "Anyone making claims should back them up" so I'll back them up with my knowledge of brandable domains. I am not going to back them up with sold names because I don't list any sold names on this site. There are many people here that contact the new owners pushing their own crap names and that doesn't benefit me when I want to sell more names to them. I let everyone else brag about that, I don't need to.
In a previous post you wanted our opinion about your rejects. Your names below got rejected by BB and not one name on this list will ever get type in traffic. So, no, a sales lander won't work for you. You asked for opinions on these names and why they got rejected. This is why.
sale socket would have been accepted if it was sales rocket. Compound names when the first name ends in S and the last name starts in S don't work most of the time. Salesocket isn't a great name and neither is SalesSocket so they rejected it.
Entwickle doesn't make sense. What is Entwickle?
I don't know what Fraichesse means but it's hard to pronounce and can be spelled 10 different ways.
Mingabyte doesn't make sense. The name has to be spot on if their is a chance for an alternative spelling. Byte or Bite. Maybe MingleBite would work as restaurant name or something but Byte is a computer term and I don't know what Minga is.
XtraGuy? Even if it was spelled right what company would use this name? When it's a name that doesn't have a lot of possible uses then spelling it correctly is important. ExtraGuy would work for something but it's not something you would see on BB.
Witfu. 5 letter names with F suck. If it starts with F then it's fine. U is also the least popular vowel to end a 5 letter name on. A is best, O and I are second and third but either one is good depending on how the name flows. E works if it's a single syllable word but most of the good ones are taken.
Psygno? Don't get it.
Fashette? Don't get it.
Emanesse? Don't get it.
Peptabyte, Nenabyte, Quexabyte, Rintabyte, Tredabyte, Vundabyte, are not good names. If you pair the right popular keywords with the word Byte then it works but using obscure names paired with Byte don't make sense. Maybe they are computer terms but I don't get it.
Solidito is a not so popular keyword paired with -ito which is a harsh sounding suffix. When using random suffixes always try to register the most popular suffix first and work your way down the list. the suffix -ito is probably on the bottom of the list of suffixes.
Hackific and Gasific I don't like. If you pair -ific with good keywords like Bank, Cash, Jet, etc…it would be accepted. I'm not a lover of the -ific suffix.
Invasic can be spelled with a C or K and when this occurs the quality of the name has to be really good to sell and this ones not good.
Flincha is a bad keyword with the right concept. Adding "A" to the end of regular words are great sellers but it has to be the right word. Who would you sell Flincha to?
FlipSheet is good for something. It is easy to pronounce, easy to spell but it just needs the right concept. The Flip keyword isn't that popular for many things though. When registering names always look to see how many names are available with a certain keyword. There are hundreds of good names available with the keyword Flip so it won't be that easy to sell because there are so many other names that a buyer can register himself instead of buying your domain. I would drop every single name on this list and keep this one. It has potential for something.
I'm not going to go through the rest of the names. The best thing you can do is analyze what is accepted and what sells. Once you do that then you will know that names like this won't be accepted.
If you would like to PM with a list of names before you register them please feel free to do so. I will help you register some good names. The best thing you can do now is study what is on BrandBucket, Brandroot, and Namerific.
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